John Simmons

Microsoft, Media Platform Architect

John
Simmons is the visionary who inspired Microsoft to play a leadership role in
the creation of international media standards. In a 2008 internal memo John
envisioned a RESTful, interoperable commercial media stack, predicting its
impact on the Web. His efforts resulted in Microsoft publishing specs for
DRM-interoperable encoding and adaptive streaming, which in turn culminated in
the ISO MPEG standards for Common Encryption and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
over HTTP (DASH). He led the creation of an OAuth 2.0 TV Everywhere
authorization standard, initiated the Google-Microsoft-Netflix contributions to
W3C for HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and Media Source Extensions
(MSE) and authored an open spec to enable embedded browsers to implement EME
without the use of proprietary software. At present John is the Media Platform
Architect for Microsoft’s Operating System Group.